The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-06-12

half nude exhibitions made on the little
platform in Metzger's saloon directly oppo-
site the City Hall. Half doors alone shield
the spectacle from the street, and while
the singing is going on scores of little
children crawl beneath the door to look in
upon the display. There they see rows of
drinking men and women at tables, and a
danseuse in tights and short dresses kick
ing up shines and singing broad songs for
their amusement. The shouting of the
damsel helps to make the night, in those
diggings, hideous, while the display inside
creates yearning on the part of the peep
ing youngsters to be inside.
And now after having stood guard over
the scraps of papers and stray envelopes
that lay around Police Headquarters,
Clerk Robinson is surprised by poacher
upon his preserves. One Of his perqui-
sites Is the right to bind together IN
holy wedlock the wandering swain that
stray into headquarters. HIS minimum
fee is half-a-dollar. His maximum fee has
no limit, but it has been known to reach as
high as 50. Reporter John p. Cormack
was elected a Justice of the Peace after
herculean efforts last spring, and he hap
pened to be in headquarters Friday eve-
ning-bad cess to him-when dainty cou
pie stepped in and asked to be welded.
There was not the usual race for Clerk
Robinson, J. p, but the Justice Reporter
was summoned and he performed the cere-
mony and captured a handsome fee OF $40
for bis services, as we'll as rousing smack
from the bride. 1t is in order row for Clerk
Robinson to issue his Ukase against repor-
tiers who are Justices of the Peace being
allowed any more privileges around head
quarters.
AS the half-pa nine Court House car
left the depot last Thursday night young
man got on and taking a seat in one corner
commenced to doze. At the other end sat
young lady whom the young man had
seen number of times, but did not know
personally. When the car reached one of
the principal streets on the Hill the lady
rose to leave the car, when the gentleman
asked permission of her to see her home,
as the rain was falling fast The lady at
first refused, but on recond thought con-
scented. The would-be escort went over to
an enlire stranger and asked the loan of
his umbrella, which was given him. The
couple left the car, followed by the stran-
ger. They walked down the street for
some distance when, the rain having
ceased, he crossed the street and returned
the umbrella to the owner. He after
wards told the lady that he had tried to
secure an introduction, but more of his
friends knew her, as she lately moved from
down town to the Hill. This cheeky fell
low offered his credentials as a reporter of
the Mail and Express. She is waiting with
blunderbuss for him to make his first
call on her.
The Trenton ssTrus American" mention
ing the fact that Attorney General StocF
ten has applied to the Supreme Court for
an order declaring an oyster bill that was
improperly certified as having passed, null
and void, SAYS that s.this is the second in
stance of that kind in the history of the
State The first was the famous Stanhope
Railway charter, which, by the collision
of the engrossing clerk and reading clerk,
was made to contain certain provisions
which were never presented to either
house, and which gave extraordinary pow
ers to the company chartered. The sue
cess of the villainy led the Legislature to
pass the law now on the statute book
which gives the Supreme Court, on the in
formation of the Attorney General, the
right to inquire into the method in which
an act mas been passed by the Legislature,
and if it has not been duly passed Or
sduly approved, to declare it null and void.
The Court has fixed the twenty seventh
day of July as the time for examining
into the validity of the supplement to the
oyster lew, and there is very little doubt
but that it will be summary set aside"
The Newark Evening News says that
Secretary Turner is in charge of bureau
in Washington to start the Cleveland re-
nomination buom, and represents Mr. Tur-
ner as having said to its correspondent that
sSenator Mcpherson is regarded here as
the strongest supporter of President
Cleveland for denomination in either house
of Congress He has so stated publicly,
and we of the committee know privately
that he is already exerting himself in that
direction The Senator claims that New
York will be for Cleveland in 1888, and that
New Jersey will follow the Empire State.
This, he thinks. virtually means Clevs-
lands denomination and reelection. SEN
ator Mcpherson is confident that the New
Jersey delegation to the next convention
will follow New York and vote for Cleve-
lands denomination. He also believes
that Cleveland will be renominated and
reelected on his public record" Congress
man Pidcock said that Central New Jersey
would be solid for the present presidential
and Congressman McAdoo was
sure that ''old Hudson County" would do
her duty in this matter.
The temporary arrangement of book
keeper Hornblower, of the Hoboken Saw
ings Bank, draws attention TO the monoto-
nous confinement to which bank en-
ployees are obliged to condemn them
selves. Counting bills belonging to some
other fellow, and adding up long lines of
figures and computing interests, day in
and day cut the year around, isn't the
liveliest occupation man CAN be put at;
and it is not to be considered ct that an oc-
casional bank official loses bis head. 1t
may be conjectured, in fact, that some at
least, if not many, of the defalcations that
we hear about in banks are the work of en-
ployees whose tired souls and weary brains
make them easy preys of the tempter. Rest
and recreation, by helping to keep his
mind in state of healthful cheerfulness,
helps to keep a man tempted on all sides